Re: My new project - comments appreciated

What's always bothered me about conlangs that are "averaged" versions�of "common"
languages is that they never seem to include the TRULY�"average" languages.
After all, Mandarin is the first tongue for more�persons than... well, a
whole lot. I've always wished to see, um,�Sino-Français or Melayu-Suomen:
some lucky minority language matched up�with a real numerically powerful
tongue.��After all, you know that if Mars is colonised that those who are
going�to emigrate aren't going to be Germans and Americans, they're going
to�be droves of, um, the appropriate equivalent of modern-day�Palestinians,
Eritreans, Javanese and the like. Wish I spoke
Finnish...��em'ly�*�*�*�*�*�"In general, though, I'm missing
what we used to call Manic Pop Thrill�- exuberance may be the word, I don't
know. Also, to pinch a word from�Kieron Gillen, triumphalism. Which I guess
you sort of find in Millar &�Hitch's THE ULTIMATES, the stadium rock of
comics. Knowing you're�getting a hundred thousand people punching the air
when you have�Captain America chop an alien Nazi in half and yell
'Surrender?! You�think this A on my head stands for FRANCE?'"�- Warren
Ellis, bad signal, 21 may 2004Ω�

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